Autonomous system
AS12798 VCW-AS Gibraltar
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
BV Gaming
business enterprise hosting
A betting operator in Gibraltar, still filed under the bookmaker's name from 1999.
What it's used for
- Networking for an online gaming company. 3,584 addresses across three IPv4 prefixes, three observed BGP neighbours, and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- The inventory is
212.22.224.0/21,212.22.248.0/22and185.82.50.0/23. - Two blocks carry the netname
GI-VICTORCHANDLER-991006; the third isGI-VICTORCHANDLER-20141223. - All three are registered to BV Gaming Limited, with a
Network Teamcontact. - The AS handle is
VCW-AS Gibraltar. - Nine addresses were sampled and none returned a name.
Interesting
991006is 6 October 1999 with a two-digit year, and the same holder's 2014 block uses the four-digit form. One organisation's records straddle the registry's format change, which makes this inventory a dated sample of exactly when the convention shifted.- The netname is a bookmaker's name and the holder is not. Gambling businesses change hands and rebrand constantly, and the registry keeps the name that was on the application — so the address space is the most durable record of who the operation used to be.
- Gibraltar as a country of registration is the whole story of this industry's addressing. A small jurisdiction with a licensing regime attracts operators that need to be somewhere, and their networks end up registered where the licence is rather than where the servers are.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 4 prefixes · 4.61K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GI | Gibraltar | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS12798- Registry name
- VCW-AS
- Registrant
- BV Gaming Limited
- Abuse contact
- networkteam@bv-group.com
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2019-12-04
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 18 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 4 authorising AS12798
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 18 of 18 announcements
- Route objects
- 35 naming AS12798
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 431 networks and 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere